Environmental advocacy group the Sierra Club is suing the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), arguing the agency’s new rule doesn’t give investors the full truth about a company’s climate risks. The Sierra Club and the Sierra Club Foundation, represented by Earthjustice, filed the lawsuit Wednesday, joining a growing list of states that have filed challenges to the...
Author Mitch Albom and seven other Americans were airlifted out of Haiti on Monday, as the U.S. government orders all nonessential citizens in the country to leave due to rampant street violence and political unrest. Albom said Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) assisted himself, his wife and eight volunteers to leave Albom’s Have Faith Haiti orphanage...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Wednesday introduced a bill to establish a standard four-day workweek in the United States without any reduction in pay. The bill, over a four-year period, would lower the threshold required for overtime pay, from 40 hours to 32 hours. It would require overtime pay at a rate of 1.5 times...
Judges try their best to apply the Supreme Court's precedents in good faith. But the inherent ambiguity of decisions like Alice and Mayo put lower courts into an impossible position — and the costs to innovation and the economy continue to mount.
Welcome to The Hill's Business & Economy newsletter {beacon} Business & Economy Business & Economy The Big Story Biden launches tax war with Republicans as campaign heats up President Biden, ahead of his likely rematch with former President Trump, kicked off a tax war with the Republican Party when he released an ambitious budget proposal....
Washington, D.C., delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) has introduced a bill to expand commercial filming at the U.S. Capitol to showcase Congress in its “fullest authenticity.” “In our open and free democracy, it should be unthinkable to deny access to film the Capitol, one of our nation’s most iconic democratic symbols,” Norton said in a...
Alabama Senator Katie Britt said being portrayed by Scarlett Johansson on "Saturday Night Live" was not on her "bingo card" for 2024, but that it was "awesome."
Addison McDowell is now virtually guaranteed of victory in North Carolina's 6th District, after former Rep. Mark Walker declined to compete in the runoff.
A federal judge has found Flint, Michigan, in contempt for its failure to comply with a court order outlining its duty to finish replacing its old lead water pipes.